The price of bitcoin is your ego.
For every one podcast on BTC security, you will find ten podcasts on BTC price predictions.
Should be the other way around.
Most influential books on my life.
ECONOMICS/GOVERNMENT
The Mystery of Banking - Murray Rothbard
What Has Government Done to Our Money? - Murray Rothbard
Democracy: The God that Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The Market for Liberty - Morris Tannehill
Anatomy of the State - Murray Rothbard
The Most Dangerous Superstition - Larken Rose
A Spontaneous Order - Chase Rachels
The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson
PHILOSOPHY
On Duties - Cicero
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
Discourses - Epictetus
Lectures and Sayings - Musconius Rufus
Everything written by Taleb
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
Psychology of Totalitarianism -Matthias Desmet
HISTORY
The Creature from Jekyll Island - G Edward Griffin
The Fourth Turning - William Strauss
FICTION
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Mandibles - Lionel Shriver
BITCOIN
The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous
The Fiat Standard -Saifedean Ammous
EU power outages remind me of why I think going off-grid should be on the long-term “to-do” list of every bitcoiner.
You can have your node and your self-custody setup, but if the State cuts the power cord (intentionally or unintentionally) and you have no alternative source of power, you’re screwed.
Sure, the equipment is expensive and requires a lot of learning, but everyone should be gearing towards this, one step at a time, imo.
If you are a specialist in violence, and your targets have their wealth in multi-sig, your business is going to fail.
This is why all governments will die.
World-changing technologies are rare. World-changing protocols are even rarer. World-changing monetary protocols only occur a few times in the history of the world.
Nobody is bullish enough.
It’s amazing how many people are afraid to buy bitcoin because we are near all-time highs. They’re thinking “what goes up must come down.”
They are still trying to time the market and sell back into dollars.
People absolutely lost their minds over DOGE, and it wasn’t enough to put a dent in the deficit, let alone the debt.
Your fairy tale of the US resolving its debt burden needs to die. It’s insolvent and never getting paid back.
The ship is sinking. Opt out or you’re going to go down with it.